Higher Education for the 1980s. Challenges and Responses. Report of the Hiroshima International Seminar on Higher Education (2nd, Hiroshima, Japan, January 29-31, 1980).

Overview & Synopsis

The challenges of social change, values crises, societal needs for higher education, the internal dynamics of higher educational systems, and future reforms in higher education were discussed at the Second Hiroshima International Seminar on Higher Education. Topics discussed include: Higher Education in an Age of Internationalization (Michio Nagai); The Clash of National Interests in Higher Education (Burton Clark); In Search for a System of Postsecondary Education (Kazuyuki Kitamura); The Outlook for Higher Education in the Next Two Decades (Howard Bowen); Paradise Regained? A Policy for Higher Education in the 1980s (Harold Perkin); Stability and Change in Japanese Higher Education (Ikuo Amano); Universities: The Last 20 Years and the 10 Years to Come (Soichi Iijima); Higher Education Reform Innovation and Experiment: Prospects for the 1980s (Alexander Astin); Japanese Higher Education for the 1980s: Continuity and Change (Tetsuya Kobayashi); Higher Education for the 1980s: Challenges and Responses (Robert McCaig); Coping with the Crisis: Revitalizing Higher Education (T. J. Pempel); Higher Education in the 1980s: A Third World Point of View (V. Selvaratnam); Issues of Higher Education in the 1980s: The Case of Korea (Jongchol Kim); Higher Education in the 1980s: The Case of West Germany (Ulrich Teichler); Notes on Higher Education in Indonesia (William K. Cummings); and Higher Education in the 1980s: Some Key Issues in Western European Countries (Dorotea Furth). (CC)